Eave-gutter bracket and overstrap.



w. H. WATSON.

EAVES GUTTER BRACKET AND OVERSTRAP.

, APPLICATION FILEDAPR. 19, 1917.

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Application filed April 18, 1912?. Serial No. 1 63,015.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, HARRY WA?- soN, a subject of the King of Great Br ta-1n and Ireland, residing at 83 Lymerston street, St. Peters, near Sydney, New South Wales, aforesaid, Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Eaves- Gutter Brackets and Overstraps, of which the following is a specification.

According to present practice eave gutters are mounted on spike brackets, on cast brackets, or on framed brackets, with overstraps of heavy gage sheet metal.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved bracket and overstrap of lighter gage sheet metal than that hitherto used, without spike, casting, or frame supports, and adapted if required to be nailed or screwed directly to the building fascia and rafter ends and to be embraced on the gutter bead to secure the gutter against accidental displacement. Manufacture and erection of eave gutters and overstraps is thus facilitated and cheapened, while at least the same security is assured as with brackets and overstraps of types now in use.

The eave gutter brackets in which the present invention consists are constructed by corrugating or embossing the middle portion of a flat strip of metal of suitable light gage but preferably light gage galvanized sheet iron or steel, by cold or hot pressing or embossing and simultaneously bending the strip in the forming operation to the section of the gutter for which it is to be used; both ends, or the lip end only of the strip is left flat and splayed outward. Similarly the overstrap is produced by cold or hot pressing or embossing a strip of suitable light gage sheet metal from end to end and simultaneously bending it at either end to set at one end over the rafter ends and at the other to set against the inturned flat lip end of the bracket. 7

The lip end of the bracket is rolled around the gutter bead to embrace it and secure the gutter in the bracket, and the over rolled edge may be soldered to the gutter metal to afford better security against accidental displacement. The flat butt end if same is left on the bracket in manufacture may be laid over the to edge of the fascia boards or over the ra ter ends, or may be cut off the rafter and its free end isseeuredto the gut- ,ter and the rolled end of the bracket by a through bolt.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through an eave gutter bracket according to this invention,

showing the bracket blank with butt and lift flats as produced by cold or hot pressing or embossing a strip of relatively thin sheet metal; Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing one of the brackets fixed to a fascia board, ready for the setting of the gutter; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section showing one of the brackets fixed as in Fig. 2, and having the flat lip end portion closed over the gutter bead, and the overstrap fixed and secured thereto by a through bolt.

The corrugations or embossed portions in the bracket and in the overstrap may be of any desired pattern, and are preferably plain wave corrugations of suflicient depth to mount the bracket and overstrap without 7 necessitating preliminary drilling or punch ing of holes therein. A are the corrugations in the bracket; C is the gutter; E the roll edge of the gutter; F the binding lip of the bracket which is bent over the gutter roll E and when desired secured to the gutter metal by soldering. B are the mounting nails or screws, and H the fascia board on which the bracket is mounted. Gris the overstrap, and K the through bolt fastening below the gutter bead E.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. An eave gutter support comprising a bracket of light gage sheet metal bent to correspond with the gutter section and cor rugated transversely of such section, with a flat overfolding lip and adapted to be folded over the gutter bead, and an overstrap' of similar metal corrugated from end to end and adapted to be secured to a rafter and bolted to the gutter and bracket fold substantially as herein described.

2. An eave gutter bracket consisting of a strip of light gage sheet metal bent to include a gutter section and simultaneously 7 corrugated in the bent portion in a direction transverse to the gutter length, leaving a fiat extension at one end of the corrugations.

8. An eave gutter bracket consisting of a bent corrugated strip of light gage sheet 7 metal With a fiat end portion adapted to be Wrapped over the roll edge of an cave gutter, substantially as described.

4. An eave gutter overstrap consisting of a strip of light gage sheet metal bent to conform to the rafter pitch at one end, at the other end bent substantially at right angles to its length to setagainst the gutter lip, and corrugated from end to end by pressing or embossing.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

WILLIAM HARRY WATSQN.

Witnesses:

W. J. HUMPHREYS, W. I. DAVIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

